ARMED FORCES: Full Speed Astern

Telephones jangled all over Washington
within a few hours after the Post last week headlined on Page One:
A-SUBMARINES HELD UNFIT FOR BATTLE NOW.

Among those trying to find out about the story were Defense Secretary
Charles Wilson, AECommissioner Lewis Strauss  and President Dwight
Eisenhower. Cause of the excitement was a deliberate "leak"
from the office of Rear Admiral Lewis S.

Parks, the Navy's chief of information and distinguished submariner in
World War II, who should have known better.